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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for May 30, 2003

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Friday, May 30, 2003

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Friday, May 30, 2003. The daily crossword is the classic: a 15×15 grid on weekdays and a larger Sunday puzzle, with difficulty rising from a gentle Monday to a fiendish Saturday. Hints come first and the solution stays hidden until you ask for it.

70 clues · jump to Across or Down. Tap a tile for one letter, or Answer for the whole word.

Across clues & answers

1
"The Fall" guy?
6
It's smaller than English
10
Temple of the Sun worshiper
14
___ barrel
15
Load
16
Wired package
17
Actress Ina
18
Medieval armor-busting weapon
20
Printing capital
22
60's pop star Little ___
23
Holy Roman emperor
24
Verb type: Abbr.
25
Harden
26
Suffix with despond
27
One with a round head
29
Roar
31
Italian painter Reni
33
Falsified
34
It has drops and bolts
37
Young pigs
38
Investment
39
Helping theorem
40
Organ part
41
Taste
44
Simple ticket order
45
Meat in French cuisine
47
"Bathers" painter
50
Equinox mo.
51
It's in your hand
53
What each word in 18-, 20-, 34- and 51-Across could be considered
55
Not at all quiet
56
Sharpness
57
Filled treat
58
Like most planetary orbits
59
Vat preparations
60
Striking end
61
Famous

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Thursday, May 29, 2003

across

1. "Thanks for ___ Memory": THE
4. "Savvy?": GETME
9. Bubble material: SOAP
13. Media inits. since 1989: AOL
14. Single: UNWED
15. Italian holiday: FESTA
16. French lock opener: CLE
17. Last Supper question: ISITI
18. Like an ancient empire: INCAN
19. With 28-Down, 37-Across's autobiography: HAVETUX
21. Fanfare: TANTARA
23. Serial opener: PARTI
25. Cut over: RETRIM
26. How some messages were once sent: BYWIRE
29. "Rob Roy" star, 1995: NEESON
31. Regarding some church matters: LAIC
32. High mark: APLUS
33. Like Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony: ING
36. ___ right: ALL
37. Entertainer born May 29, 1903: BOBHOPE
39. Washington, e.g.: Abbr.: GEO
40. ___ Paese cheese: BEL
41. Eastern: ASIAN
42. Whale watcher: AHAB
43. Ones on the right: TORIES
45. Slight: PALTRY
47. Jump on: BERATE
49. Makarova of tennis: ELENA
51. Click beetles: ELATERS
53. Noted 37-Across venue: USOSHOW
57. One in a conger line?: ELVER
58. Two chips, perhaps: WAGER
60. Slangy suffix: OLA
61. Funeral stands: BIERS
62. Prince Valiant's wife: ALETA
63. Snap: PIC
64. Smoked fish: EELS
65. Leader of the One Israel coalition: BARAK
66. 37-Across's age on May 29, 2003: IOO

down

1. Dash gauge: TACH
2. Spanish welcome: HOLA
3. Atlas abbr.: ELEV
4. Many a position in a rock band: GUITAR
5. Co-sign, as a loan: ENSURE
6. Not on the end, for short: TWIXT
7. Satisfied, in a way: MET
8. Do Time?: EDIT
9. Targeted, as with a mailing: SENTTO
10. 37-Across used to emcee it: OSCARNIGHT
11. Big name in games: ATARI
12. ___ Games: PANAM
15. Certain bridge play: FINESSE
20. "Beowulf," e.g.: EPIC
22. "Your gamblin' days ___" (Bob Dylan lyric): AREUP
24. Synchronous: INPHASE
26. Say too much: BLAB
27. Bowl site: YALE
28. See 19-Across: WILLTRAVEL
30. North Carolina university: ELON
32. Harry Hershfield comic "___ the Agent": ABIE
34. Within earshot: NEAR
35. Elapse: GOBY
37. Wheels and deals: BARTERS
38. Basket material: OSIER
42. Comment on a loss: ALAS
44. "The Marshal of Cripple Creek" and others: OATERS
45. Discontinued money: PESETA
46. Polar jacket: ANORAK
47. William who wrote "Half Mile Down": BEEBE
48. NBC's "Watching ___": ELLIE
50. Winter Olympian: LUGER
52. Forensic evidence collector: SWAB
54. Snake dancers: HOPI
55. This and that: OLIO
56. City on the Brazos: WACO
59. Mobile home: Abbr.: ALA

Hints and full breakdown for May 29

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